Good thing I’ve watched part of a Let’s Play of Final Fantasy 12, or I’d have no idea what “Vaan-like” would mean.
Uwuwu was a small edge-of-the-forest town of about a thousand or so people. In other words, about the size of Ponyville. It was a three-way junction along trade routes, (This part’s not finished)
The town boasted Tudor style architecture, but the Main Street pointed to all sorts of anachronisms. A sacrificial altar, a cybernetics workshop, an inn, a video rental store, an Apple store, a McDonald’s, a 1950’s style bowling alley, an alchemy workshop, a 19th century smithy, a wild western saloon, a Toad House, and the entrance to a fallout-proof vault embedded in a cliff face all lined the north side from east to west, in that order.
Inside the medieval-looking inn was an art deco lobby straight out of the 1900’s. Despite this, the desks featured holographic screens manned by androids. A virtual hookah sat in the corner, and beyond it was a 1980’s video game arcade. A Nintendo Wii and plasma TV were mounted on the opposite wall, the set displaying a game of Mario Tennis being played by two fillies in spacesuits and a rugged looking unicorn colt. Pictures of Moaning Lisa and a sand crawler resembling the one just outside the town decorated the lobby walls. Two old-style elevator doors opened revealing a plain unicorn mare with a PDA cutie mark standing in an elevator straight from the distant future.
What kind of place was this? Everything looked so random. For one, the short brunette unicorn was repairing the elevator with stone tools and a magic wand, while a Beatles song played on the PA. That just struck Apple Bloom as weird.
There, standing in the corner, was who they were looking for. The local version of Crackle Pop. He was soquili-like and was wearing jeans and a sort of short, open vest, looking very streetpunk-ish, one might say “Vaan-like” in a way. He was also wearing a communications headset, and what appeared to be a sort of tablet or slate device on his hip. He was holding some sort of futuristic PDA in his left hand and a crystal in his right, and seemed to be scanning said crystal with the PDA.
I wanted something that would make me go “Yeayuhhh”, not “Blahhh”, “Arghhh” or “Gahhhhh”.I looked at my past drawings. Princess Twilight. A manticore. The Tree of Harmony. My uncle’s cutie mark. A Sequoia. A pony named Sequoia. A panorama of the schoolhouse. A giant cloudy pig monster attacking a huge castle. A pink earth pony filly in a yellow spacesuit bashing a robot with a rock. The constellation of Andromeda and the scene where Princess Andromeda was chained to a rock off the coast of Griffonstone to be eaten by the Kai Ogre.None of them too spectacular. The panorama and spacesuit filly were probably the best, but I was partial to the one of Twilight. The manticore one sucked, though. It just didn’t look scary enough somehow.
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